page_title: Donecle
section_title: Foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Donecle / History / Foundation
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Fondateurs de la startup Donecle, de gauche à droite, Josselin Bequet, Matthieu Claybrough, Alban Deruaz-Pepin et Yann Bruner. English: Founders of the startup Donecle, from left to right, Josselin Bequet, Matthieu Claybrough, Alban Deruaz-Pepin and Yann Bruner. Español: Fundadores de la startup Donecle, de izquierda a derecha, Josselin Bequet, Matthieu Claybrough, Alban Deruaz-Pepin y Yann Bruner.
context_page_description: Donecle is a Toulouse-based aircraft manufacturer which develops autonomous aircraft inspection UAVs. The company offers single UAVs and swarms of UAVs to visually inspect the exterior of airliners.
  Autonomous navigation of the UAVs is based on laser positioning technology. UAVs take pictures of the aircraft with high resolution cameras. Image processing and machine learning algorithms analyse the images. The system then provides a diagnostic of the aircraft surface to a qualified inspector, who reviews the images and validates or refutes the provided analysis.
  The company works with airlines such as Air France Industries-KLM and aircraft manufacturers such as Dassault Aviation and is one of the players in the field of aeronautical maintenance automation.
context_section_description: After thirteen years in the design offices of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus on the A400M and A350 aircraft with metal and composite materials, Yann Bruner, an engineer at Mines ParisTech with a PhD in Mechanics and Materials, noted that maintenance inspection reports are often incomplete for various reasons such as missing photographs, missing information, or illegible handwriting. He considered the use of drones to perform the inspection automatically. He contacted Matthieu Claybrough, who was involved in UAV projects at the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, Claybrough has a specialization in innovation management, aeronautics and control theory. For three years he worked on the design of automatic pilots for aircraft, including helicopters for Thales Avionics, an avionics supplier.
  Two other partners joined them in the project. The first was Josselin Bequet, a graduate of the École supérieure de commerce de Paris (ESCP Europe) and the City, University of London who  specializes in management and finance. The second was Alban Deruaz-Pepin, who graduated from the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO) and specializes in computer science and control theory, and holds a private pilot license. They founded the startup, Donecle, in September 2015 and developed an automated inspection procedure for aircraft with a swarm of UAVs. In June of That same year they presented their concept at the Paris Air Show.
caption: Founders of Donecle, from left to right, Josselin Bequet, Matthieu Claybrough, Alban Deruaz-Pepin et Yann Bruner.[8]
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